Bill O'Brien defends his clock management, slams critics

Bill O'Brien defends his clock management, slams critics

Houston Texans coach Bill O’Brien has taken a lot of criticism for his clock management in the end-of-game situations. When asked about the final drive in Sunday’s loss to the Indianapolis Colts on his weekly radio show, O’Brien got testy.

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“These clock management questions you know, I just, I’m telling you, people have no idea what they’re talking about.”

The coach then elaborated on his decision-making process from Sunday,

“When there’s under a minute and you have one timeout and you need a touchdown to win, you need to save that timeout for a long, for a fourth-down discussion. You know, if there’s a fourth down or a gotta-have-it type play you need that timeout to really think about what that play is gonna be. We had four shots to the end zone from the 6 yards line. If we spike the ball we only get three shots.”

O’Brien then tried a mic drop on the situation,

“It doesn’t even make sense, the argument doesn’t even make sense. But there’s a lot of experts out there when you lose.”

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